wmngreer wrote:Hi,
I am a novice web designer. A few days ago I began evaluating NETObjects Fusion Essentials -- my first venture into CF. Essentials is impressive and seems to be capable of quite a lot, but I do not mind paying for Fusion 11 if it is clearly in my best interest to do so. So I have this simple question: Is there a summary somewhere online that compares Essentials to the full-featured application -- specifically listing what Essentials can and cannot do?
Welcome.
Fusion Essentials is a relabeled Fusion 7.5. 7.5 was a very good release in its day. It's last update was in 2003.
No, there's no feature by feature comparison between Essential and Fusion 11. But then there's no such comparison for a 2003 car vs. a 2008 model either.
Fusion 11 produces w3c compliant HTML and can also produce XHTML. Fusion 7.5/Essentials doesn't. That alone is reason enough to buy it for the those who care about that sort of thing. And most everyone should care.
That being said, if Essentials isn't limiting you in any way (that you're aware of), it's a good way to learn the Fusion interface and paradigm for web design using code generation.
It may be all you need. The decision is yours.
Look at the new feature list for Fusion 11. Consider that the list is changes since Fusion 10. There were, of course, changes and improvements from 7.5 to 8, 8 to 9 and 9 to 10 as well. Do the math.
You can buy Fusion 11 through links in the Beyond Fusion store.
Admin Chuck
